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Speaker 1: Crime and Art hourly update breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. Brian Colberger's defense team request for a

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Speaker 2: change of venue has been granted. Coberger's attorneys made an

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Speaker 2: impassioned plead to the court, claiming strong emotions in the

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Speaker 2: community and the constant news coverage would make it impossible

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Speaker 2: to find an impartial jury in Moscow. Listen to defense

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Speaker 2: attorney Lisa Massouth, Our.

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Speaker 3: Defense team firmly and I mean firmly believes in mister

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Speaker 3: Coberger's innocence, and right now he's being held to have

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Speaker 3: a trial in a county that believes that he is guilty.

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Speaker 3: If you deny a change of venue, mister Coberger's constitutional

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Speaker 3: right to a fair trial is denied.

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Speaker 2: Brian Coberger's defense team also say that if Coberger is

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Speaker 2: acquitted in the same town that the murder took place,

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Speaker 2: he will be lynched and riots will erupt. Crime Onlines

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Speaker 2: Dave Mack.

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Speaker 4: Brian Coberger's defense team conducted a phone survey of hundreds

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Speaker 4: of potential jurors in Laytok County, asking them multiple questions

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Speaker 4: about their knowledge of the case. According to the defense team,

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Speaker 4: there is a bias against Coburger, revealed in answers to

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Speaker 4: questions such as what would happen if Coburger is not convicted?

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Speaker 4: Potential jurors in Laytok County answered that question with they'd

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Speaker 4: burn the courthouse down. Outrage would be a mild description.

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Speaker 4: They would probably find him and kill him, and there

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Speaker 4: would likely be a riot, and he wouldn't last long

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Speaker 4: outside because someone would do the good old boy justice,

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Speaker 4: and finally riots parents would take care of him.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutors countered those claims, saying any problems with potential bias

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Speaker 2: could be resolved by simply bringing in a larger pool

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Speaker 2: of potential jurors and questioning them carefully. Judge John Judge

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Speaker 2: ruled for the defense. As Crime on Lines Drew Nelson

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Speaker 2: tells US.

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Speaker 5: Judge John Judge, citing his concern for Brian Coberger receiving

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Speaker 5: a fair trial at the Layta County Courthouse in Moscow,

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Speaker 5: has made the decision to move the trial to a

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Speaker 5: different city. The judge notes the extensive media coverage of

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Speaker 5: the case, as well as statements made by public officials

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Speaker 5: suggesting Coburger is guilty. In a very practical matter, the

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Speaker 5: judge says the courthouse is not big enough to accommodate

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Speaker 5: the case, and the County Sheriff's office doesn't have enough

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Speaker 5: deputies to properly handle security. The judge did not say

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Speaker 5: where the trial would be moved.

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Speaker 2: The question of where the Brian Coberger trial will be

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Speaker 2: held will be answered by the Idaho Supreme Court. Under

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Speaker 2: Idaho Court rules, judges who grant motions to move trials

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Speaker 2: can indicate if they want to remain on the case.

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Speaker 2: Judge John John did not do so, instead granting the

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Speaker 2: motion under a rule that provides for a new judge

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Speaker 2: to be assigned. It is not clear when the Idaho

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court will assign a new venue or a new judge,

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Speaker 2: and the question of whether these changes will force a

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Speaker 2: delay of the trial date is unclear. More on the

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Speaker 2: change of NU ruling for Brian Kohberger. Tune in to

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Speaker 2: podcast on your favorite app or Crime Injustice News. After

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Speaker 2: this missing Patti Atkins was last seen leaving the Honda

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Speaker 2: Automotive plant in Maplesville, Ohio. She hasn't been seen or

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Speaker 2: heard from since. For more, Here's Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: Patricia Patti Atkins twenty nine plans a trip to Canada

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Speaker 1: with her boyfriend while the Marysville, Ohio Honda plant where

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Speaker 1: they both work, shuts down for Independence Day. Patty drops

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Speaker 1: off her daughters seven with her sister, Marsha for the week.

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Speaker 1: The couple plans to leave from work Friday evening, but

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Speaker 1: Patty's boyfriend is married and keeping their relationship a secret.

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Speaker 1: He expects Patty to hide in his truck ed while

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Speaker 1: he drops coworkers off on the way home to pick

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Speaker 1: up her bags. The day she's set to pick up

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Speaker 1: her daughter, she doesn't show up and is not answering calls. Sister.

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Speaker 1: Marshall calls Patty's boyfriend, who acts like he doesn't know

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Speaker 1: who Patty is. Cops find evidence at his home suggesting otherwise,

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Speaker 1: including a letter and a shirt Patty gifted to him,

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Speaker 1: but they find no traces of Patty's DNA in his

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Speaker 1: home or truck. They also find Patty gave her boyfriend

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Speaker 1: nearly ninety thousand dollars in months leading up to her disappearance.

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Speaker 1: Patty Atkins now missing twenty three years five eight, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty pounds, blonde with blue eyes, blue and

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Speaker 1: green flowers tattooed on her lower back. There's a cash

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Speaker 1: reward for any info called Union County, Ohio Sheriff's ninety

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Speaker 1: three seven sixty four to two seven sixty five three.

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Speaker 1: If you have info on Patty atkins.

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Speaker 2: Nicole Parton.